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Microsoft today announced that it will invest over $5 billion in the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next four-years. The main goal of the company is to offer customers a connected solution and the ability to transform their businesses, and the world at large.
IoT is slowly gaining momentum in India, and it is already in use for a wide variety of use cases such as saving electricity, resources, predictive healthcare, automobile safety and more.Microsoft today mentioned that it is planning to dedicate even more resources to research and innovation in IoT and ultimately evolving to be the new intelligent edge
With Microsoft's IoT platform spanning across its cloud, OS, and devices, the company has a unique advantage to simplify IoT to anyone regardless of size, technical expertise, budget, industry or other factors and create trusted, connected solutions that improve business and customer experiences, better improve the daily live of common people.
According to A.T. Kearney research, IoT will lead to a $1.9 trillion productivity increase and $177 billion in reduced costs by 2020. This will affect right from connected homes and cars to manufacturers to smart cities and utilities and everything that comes in between. Microsoft says that companies like Steelcase, Kohler, Chevron, United Technologies and Johnson Controls are ...
Samsung SM-J720F surfaced in benchmarks back in January this year. Now the user manual of the smartphone has surfaced on the official site confirming dual rear cameras, front camera with flash as well as Bixby Home, making it the first budget smartphone from Samsung to come with Bixby support. It also comes with removable battery, micro USB port, fingerprint sensor on the home button and loudspeaker grill on the back, next to the camera.
Earlier benchmark listing revealed most of the specifications of the phone, check them out below.
Samsung Galaxy J7 (2018) rumored specifications
5.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD / (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD display
Octa-Core (2.2GHz Dual + 1.6GHz Hexa) Exynos 7885 14nm processor with Mali-G71 GPU
4GB RAM, 32GB Internal Storage, expandable up to 256GB via micro SD card
Android 8.0 (Oreo)
Dual SIM
13MP rear camera with LED flash, secondary rear camera
8MP front camera with LED flash
Fingerprint sensor
4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS
Since the user manual has surfaced on Samsung India site, it expected to launch in the country soon.
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Details about the upcoming flagship HTC U12 surfaced last month, later it was said that the phone will be called U12+ and will feature feature dual 8-megapixel front-facing cameras for bokeh effects, similar to the HTC U11 EYEs as well as dual rear cameras. Now an online listing for the screen protector for the phone has surfaced showing how the phone will look like.
It clearly shows 18:9 aspect ratio display and dual front cameras. Earlier leak revealed that the phone will feature a 6-inch QHD+ screen, Snapdragon 845 with 6GB RAM, Android 8.0, 12-megapixel rear camera along with a 16-megapixel secondary camera, both with Sony IMX3 series sensors and a 3420mAh battery.
HTC U12+ rumored specifications
6-inch (2880 x 1440 pixels) Quad HD+ Super LCD 6 display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection
Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform with Adreno 630 GPU
6GB RAM, 64GB / 128GB storage (UFS 2.1), expandable memory up to 2TB with microSD
Android 8.0 (Oreo) with HTC Sense UI
Single / Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD)
12MP HTC UltraPixel rear camera with dual LED flash, secondary 16MP rear camera
8MP + 8MP dual front-facing cameras with Real-time bokeh effects
Water and dust resistant (IP68)
Fingerprint sensor
USB-C ...
Dell has introduced the Inspiron All-in-Ones PCs, an updated XPS 15, Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 Special Edition, S Series displays, and also announced the availability and new color for the XPS 15 2-in-1. The Inspiron and XPS devices are powered by the Intel’s latest 8th Gen Core processors.
The Dell XPS 15 flagship laptop comes with latest 6-core 8th Generation Intel Core processors and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti graphics card. It comes packed with platinum silver exterior and sports a 15.6-inches UltraSharp 4K Ultra HD InfinityEdge touch display with 100 percent Adobe RGB color. It comes with Windows Hello log-in with an optional fingerprint reader integrated into the power button, and Thunderbolt 3 with four lanes of PCI Express and HDMI 2.0.
The new XPS 15 2-in-1, which was unveiled at CES 2018 is now available for purchase worldwide starting March 29. It sports a 15.6-inch InfinityEdge 4K Ultra HD display, and there is also a 15.6-inches Full HD base model as well. It is powered by the 8th Gen Intel Core processor with Intel HD graphics and discrete Radeon RX Vega M graphics in a single package.
It comes with an innovative maglev keyboard and near slim edge display. It runs on Windows 10 with Xbox app, support for DirectX12, and gamers ...
Apple is hiring Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence; John Giannandrea. The news was first reported by The New York Times, and it comes one day after he announced that he was stepping down from his role at Google.
John Giannandrea joined Google back in 2010 as a machine learning expert, and it is a big deal for Apple who is lagging behind in the AI fields like computer vision and natural language processing. According to reports, John Giannandrea will directly report to CEO Tim Cook as the leader of “machine learning and AI strategy. With Google, Facebook, Amazon and to some extent Microsoft are racing ahead in AI.
It is Apple who helped define the early market with its virtual assistant Siri has slowly started declining with no access to data nor the research talent and resources to reach the same level of intensity as its rivals. Apple in a statement on Tuesday said that Giannandrea would run Apple’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy,” and become one of 16 executives who report directly to Tim Cook.
Though Apple is the world’s most valuable publicly traded company; the company is lagging behind regarding iPhone’s digital assistant; Siri, which is very less effective than its counterparts at Google and Amazon. As for Google, ...
HMD Global just launched new Nokia 6, Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 8 Sirocco, the company's latest Android One smartphones that were introduced at the MWC 2018, as expected. All these run Android Oreo, come with Face unlock and also have Pro Camera mode. The company has also promised to offer latest Android security updates every month and also update to Android P.
The new Nokia 6 has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by Snapdragon 630 Mobile platform, runs on Android 8.0 (Oreo), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, ZEISS optics and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It has an unibody metal design made of 6000 series aluminium, has Nokia’s Dual Sight / Bothie feature and packs a 3000mAh battery with support for fast charging that can charge the phone up to 50% in 30 minutes.
The Nokia 7 Plus has a 6-inch 18:9 Full HD+ display, is powered by Snapdragon 660, has dual rear sensors with ZEISS optics that combine an ultra-sensitive 12MP wide-angle primary camera for both low-light and extra bright conditions and a secondary 13MP camera for 2x optical zoom. It has an unibody metal design made of 6000 series aluminium ...
Xiaomi launched the Redmi 5A smartphone recently. We already brought you the review of the phone, here we have the battery life test results of the phone. It packs a 3000mAh (typical) / 2910mAh (minimum) built-in battery, has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by Snapdragon 425, has 2GB or 3GB of RAM and runs on Android 7.1.2 (Nougat) with MIUI 9. Check out the test results below.
Talk Time
It lasted for 25 hours and 5 minutes in our talk time test.
3G Browsing
It lasted for 6 hours and 42 minutes in our 3G browsing test.
WiFi Browsing
It lasted 9 hours and 6 minutes in our WiFi Browsing test.
Video Playback
It lasted for 11 hours and 8 minutes in our video playback test, same as Redmi 4A.
Charging Time
It took 2 hours 16 mins for charging it from 0 to 100% since it doesn't have support for fast charging.
Standby Time
It lasted for 33 days in our standby test.
It achieved a One Charge Rating of 12 hours and 38 minutes, slightly less than 12 hours and 53 minutes rating for the Redmi 4A since this has a smaller battery. Check out our battery life test procedure, to know more about our tests in detail.
Last week OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei confirmed that the OnePlus 6 will have a notch and shared the reason for having a notch. Later the CEO Pete Lau shared more details about the screen and the notch on the forum saying that the phone will have a compatibility mode that will let you black out the sides of the notch when in landscape mode when watching videos or playing games . The CEO also said that the mode has been tested with the 1000 most popular apps in the Play Store, and it works wonderfully.
Now he has posted an update saying that the phone will have an option to hide the notch. At first the company considered against adding this feature, now after feedback from the users, it has decided to add it in a future software update after the launch of the OnePlus 6. He added that OxygenOS will be optimized to work alongside the notch so that you can easily view and access all of your notifications.
Option to hide the notch is available in Huawei P20 and P20 Pro smartphones that was introduced recently.
Regarding the black-out option, Pete Lau
A black-out feature was seriously considered in the early stages of the development ...
According to a latest report, Amazon is planning to submit a rival offer to buy India’s largest e-commerce firm Flipkart who are in advance talks with Walmart Inc. for selling a majority stake. The company is said to be in early exploratory talks to buy Flipkart even as Flipkart closes in on sale to Walmart.
It is already well-known that Walmart is in talks to buy 55% of Flipkart through a mix of primary and secondary share purchases that values Flipkart at $21 billion. It is also reported that Flipkart investors Tiger Global Management, Accel Partners, Naspers, IDG Ventures and others are also expected to sell most or all of their shares in the Flipkart-Walmart deal.
The secondary share purchases will happen at a lower valuation. It is widely believed that a deal with Walmart is more likely to go through. Back in August 2017, Flipkart received $1.4 billion in fresh capital from Japan’s SoftBank Group, valuing the retailer at about $14 billion. For Flipkart, valuation of more than $20 billion will be an interesting turn around with its competition against Amazon in India.
It is also rumored that Google also wanted to invest in the e-commerce firm valuing it at $15-16 billion, according to reports from February. On the other hand, Since its ...
After suing Facebook, BlackBerry is now after Snapchat creator Snap Inc. over patented Messaging, Snap Maps and more. BlackBerry Chief Executive Officer John Chen has been working to find additional sources of revenue as investors express concern over company's growth.
As the growth of the company is tanking, the company is hunting through its library of wireless tech and messaging patents to find opportunities for more licensing deals, and lawsuits. The company is now after Snapchat and is accusing of infringing six patents issued in 2012 and 2014. Two among these are also among the suite that BlackBerry filed against Facebook in March.
BlackBerry patent rights include map improvement for mobile devices, user interface improvements for mobile devices, modern mobile advertising techniques. Snapchat declined to comment on the issue
A BlackBerry spokesperson in a statement said:
BlackBerry has a well-earned reputation for protecting and securing our customers’ data and privacy. For more than a year we have been working to establish a dialogue with Snap as we believe there are far more opportunities for partnership than disagreement. While we continue to hold this door open, we also have a strong claim that Snap infringed on our intellectual property, harmed our shareholders, and we have an ...
Honor just sent out media invites for an event on May 15th in London and from the teaser image it is evident that the company is launching a smartphone and it is expected to be Honor 10. It looks like the company is again focusing on A.I which is evident from ‘Beauty in AI’ caption.
Following the trend of launching its Honor flagships around this time of the year, the company is expected to introduce the Honor 10 and it will be powered by the same chipset that is powering the Honor View 10; the Kirin 970 64-bit octa-core processor. The Honor 10 will also pack slim bezel-less design with a 5.7-inches display and is expected to run on Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI 8.1 on top with improved A.I features and enhancements.
Just like the Huawei P20 series, the Honor 10 is expected to come with a top-notch. It will have dual-rear cameras and a front-facing fingerprint sensor. The live-image of the Honor 10 surfaced recently, however, the design of the phone is partially hidden given that it is in testing. It remains to be seen what Honor has planned up its sleeve and also if its ships with or without a notch. May ...
Xiaomi today launched Mi Crowdfunding, where users can support, buy and also help Xiaomi decide which products can be launched in India. When 100% support is achieved within a stipulated timeline, a project will be considered successful for a specific product. It will be shipped to backers and will also be launched for others.
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How does Xiaomi Crowdfunding work?
Select the product, click on 'Support now' and place your order.
Use any preferred online payment mode (Credit card/ Debit card ,Internet banking, payment wallets) and pay within the defined timelines on the payment page.
You can come back anytime to check the project progress.Project is successful once the bar reaches 100% in the defined timelines.
Priority delivery within the said timelines. If the project is unsuccessful, you get your entire money back.
If you change your mind, you can always cancel the order before it ships out.
Starting today midnight two products, Mi Selfie Stick Tripod and Mi Bluetooth Audio Receiver will be available for funding at Rs. 1099 and Rs. 999, respectively for the next 14 days.
Mi Selfie Stick Tripod
A unique selfie stick and tripod stand combined into one unit, with a Bluetooth shutter remote
Bluetooth 3.0 supports Android 4.3 and higher and ...
With brands inclining towards removing the 3.5mm audio jack on their flagship smartphones, wireless earphones are the only option unless you want to go the dongle way. OnePlus is on the verge of introducing the OnePlus 6 flagship but that's not it, the company is also planning on bringing 'OnePlus Bullet Wireless' headphones alongside the flagship.
According to the Bluetooth Certification listing, the OnePlus Bullet wireless headphones come with model number BT31B. The listing is filed by OnePlus yesterday and the timing falls in line with the OnePlus 6 launch which, despite not having an official launch date, has been in the news for the past few weeks. However, the wireless headphones come bundled with the OnePlus 6 or will be sold separately is unknown at the moment.
With OnePlus 6 likely to retain the good old 3.5mm audio jack, there is a chance that the company might sell these separately. OnePlus earlier introduced OnePlus Bullets wired earphones and it will be interesting to see where OnePlus places the upcoming wireless headphones in terms of sound quality and features.
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Dell and Alienware jointly have introduced the 15 and 17 gaming laptops and they are powered up to Intel Core i9 processor with up to 6-cores, with overclocking up to 5.0GHZ for the first time ever on Alienware laptops. On the other hand, Dell also launched the G-series affordable gaming laptops which includes G3 15, 17 and Dell G5 15, G7 15.
Dell has updated it's Alienware 15 and 17 laptops and they are available in variants ranging from 8th Gen Intel Core i5, i7, to the latest i9 processors with up to 6-cores, enabling overclocking up to 5.0GHZ. The company says that it has mechanically engineered the Alienware Cryo-Tech v2.0, which is its cooling system with 50% thinner fan blades, a vapor chamber on the CPU to cool down the higher number of cores more efficiently.
It also gets support for external desktop graphics via the Alienware Graphics Amplifier, optional 120Hz TN+WVA 400-nits display designed with Nvidia Gsync. It comes with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 1070, and 1080 graphics or an AMD Radeon RX570 with 8GB DDR5 GPU options.
The Dell G-series laptops include G3 15, 17 and Dell G5 15, G7 15. These are affordable gaming laptops and come with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-Series GPUs, 8th ...
After several leaks, Motorola has finally sent out invites for an event on April 19th in Sao Paulo, Brazil where the company is expected to introduce its latest Moto G6 series smartphones - Moto G6, Moto G6 Play and Moto G6 Plus. All the phones are expected to feature 18:9 displays, fingerprint sensor and the Moto G6 and G6 Plus have dual rear cameras.
Moto G6 Plus rumored specifications
5.93-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18:9 IPS display
2.2 GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 630 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 508 GPU
6GB RAM with 64GB internal storage, 4GB RAM with 32GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD
Android 8.0 (Oreo)
Single / Dual SIM
12MP rear camera with LED Flash, 5MP secondary rear camera
16MP front-facing camera with LED flash
Fingerprint sensor
4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 5 LE, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
3200mAh battery with Turbo charging
Moto G6 rumored specifications
5.7-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18:9 IPS display
1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 450 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 506 GPU
3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage, 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD
Android 8.0 (Oreo)
Single / Dual SIM
...
Xiaomi today announced that it would be organising a Supplier Investment Summit in India from April 9th to April 11. The summit will be hosted with up to 50+ Xiaomi component suppliers from around the world who will visit different states learning about the opportunities in India.
Xiaomi says that India is an important market for it outside of China and is also a major manufacturing hub and for the same reason, it is giving a chance for the suppliers to visit different states to evaluate opportunities for setting up local base in the country. This will not only bring in additional foreign investment in India but will also create job opportunities.
The primary agenda of this summit is to help the suppliers understand about opportunities in the Indian market, incentives offered by Center and State government, FDI policy, industrial policy and various state sector-specific policies.
Xiaomi currently has three manufacturing facilities in India of which two facilities are in partnership with FOXCONN which are present in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. These two manufacturing facilities are dedicated to manufacturing smartphones.
The company says that more than 95% of Xiaomi's smartphones sold in India are being manufactured locally and the production capacity is 1 smartphone per second during operational hours. ...
Xiaomi today started its two-day Mi Fan Festival sale on Mi.com as well as Flipkart and Amazon.in to offer discounts on its smartphones and accessories. Check out the list of offers.
Discounts on Xiaomi products during Mi Fan Festival Sale
Mi MIX 2 – Rs. 29,999 (Rs. 3000 off)
Mi Max 2 64GB– Rs. 14,999 (Rs. 1000 off) - Flipkart | Amazon
Mi Max 2 32GB– Rs. 12,999 (Rs. 1000 off)
Redmi 4 64GB – Rs. 9999 (Rs. 500 off)
Mi Bluetooth Speaker Basic 2 - Rs. 1,499 (Rs. 300 off)
Mi Band HRX Edition – Rs. 999 (Rs. 300 off) - Flipkart | Amazon
Mi WiFi Repeater 2 - Rs. 699 (Rs. 100 off) - Flipkart | Amazon
Flipkart also hold flash sale for Redmi 5A at 4PM and for Mi TVs at 5PM. Both Amazon and Flipkart offer 5% (Up to Rs. 500) Instant Discount for with SBI Credit Card users on purchase of Rs. 7500 or more.
The limited period offer ends tomorrow, April 6th or till stocks last. You can visit Flipkart or Amazon.in to check out more Mi Fan Festival Sale offers.
Microsoft today announced that it will invest over $5 billion in the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next four-years. The main goal of the company is to offer customers a connected solution and the ability to transform their businesses, and the world at large.
IoT is slowly gaining momentum in India, and it is already in use for a wide variety of use cases such as saving electricity, resources, predictive healthcare, automobile safety and more.Microsoft today mentioned that it is planning to dedicate even more resources to research and innovation in IoT and ultimately evolving to be the new intelligent edge
With Microsoft's IoT platform spanning across its cloud, OS, and devices, the company has a unique advantage to simplify IoT to anyone regardless of size, technical expertise, budget, industry or other factors and create trusted, connected solutions that improve business and customer experiences, better improve the daily live of common people.
According to A.T. Kearney research, IoT will lead to a $1.9 trillion productivity increase and $177 billion in reduced costs by 2020. This will affect right from connected homes and cars to manufacturers to smart cities and utilities and everything that comes in between. Microsoft says that companies like Steelcase, Kohler, Chevron, United Technologies and Johnson Controls are ...
Emoji are a way of expressing and are commonly used in conversation made on a smartphone or tablet. But now Google Chrome is working on making it easier to use emoji on desktops. All major operating systems now have an easy to bring up a special emoji/symbols picker which is usually hidden behind a key combination.
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Chrome is making it easier to reach out the Emoji picker by adding a shortcut to the menu that appears when you right-click in any text field on the web. The Emoji option will be the first-in-the list and opens the native emoji selector for your operating system. The Emoji context menu reads "Enables the Emoji picker item in context menus for editable text areas. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS."
However, the feature currently is only available for developers since it still needs testing and is often times unstable. As for those who are using the Chrome Canary channel, you simply head to "chrome://flags/#enable-emoji-context-menu" and enable it right away. We're still weeks away before the feature finally makes its way into the stable version.
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Apple just confirmed that the Mac Pro machines will find their way into the market only in 2019 which might come as a let down to those who were hoping to see a Pro machine sometime this year. Back in 2017, at a roundtable conference, Apple has responded to the concerns of the Mac Pro users saying that it is developing a brand new Mac Pro that will be launched next year, i.e 2018.
However, the Cupertino maker is now pushing back the launch date to 2019, but the company says it will be worth the wait. The company speaking to TechCrunch has revealed that the Pro workstation will now ship in 2019 so it doesn't affect the rest of the Pro line-up such as the iMac Pro. Talking about the same, Tom Boger, senior director of Mac Hardware Product Marketing said:“We know that there’s a lot of customers today that are making purchase decisions on the iMac Pro and whether or not they should wait for the Mac Pro."
On the bright side, the company revealed its plans for the Mac Pro and how well it is shaping up. It now has formed a Pro Workflow Team which will overlook Apple's hardware and software including its ...
HMD Global announced the new Nokia 6 Android One smartphone at the MWC, which was launched in India earlier this week. Today the company has started selling the smartphone across the country. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, is powered by Snapdragon 630 Mobile platform, runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo), has a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, ZEISS optics and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
It has a unibody metal design made of 6000 series aluminium and has Nokia’s Dual Sight / Bothie feature and will get face unlock through OTA update in Q2. It packs a 3000mAh battery with support for fast charging that can charge the phone up to 50% in 30 minutes.
Nokia 6 2018 specifications
5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) 2.5D curved glass display with 450 nits brightness, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
2.2 GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 630 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 508 GPU
3GB RAM, 32GB storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD
Android 8.1 (Oreo)
Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD)
16MP rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, 1.0um sensor, f/2.0 aperture
8MP front-facing camera, 1.12um sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 84˚ wide-angle lens
Fingerprint sensor
3.5mm ...
